11:57 PM IST Paul Edwards Somerset 301 and 227 for 7 (Lammonby 116, Porter 4-51) lead Essex 337 for 8 (Gregory 6-72) by 191 runs The penultimate morning of the first-class cricket season offered both a familiar elegy and a fresh dynamic. The trees in St John’s Wood Church Grounds were crisping gently into autumn and it seemed fitting that John Sell Cotman, the 19th century landscape painter, has his…
Picking the squads for the Women’s T20 Challenge will be the first task for the new selection panel 6:12 PM GMT Annesha Ghosh Neetu David, the new chairperson of selectors for India Women, expects picking squads for the upcoming Women’s T20 Challenge to be “a challenging first assignment” given that the Covid-19 pandemic has left players with little to no training. But she backed several “exciting India prospects” to make…
11:25 PM IST Sreshth Shah Kolkata Knight Riders 145 for 3 (Gill 70*, Morgan 42*) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 142 for 4 (Pandey 51, Russell 1-16, Cummins 1-19, Chakravarthy 1-25) by seven wickets Kolkata Knight Riders bounced back from their comprehensive defeat to Mumbai Indians to ease past Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets on the back of an impressive performance from their varied bowling attack, which restricted Sunrisers to 142 for…
5:23 PM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 For the first five years of her England career, Nat Sciver looked ill-suited to batting in T20 international cricket. She was shuffled up and down regularly, and struggled for fluency in the middle order: in her first 37 innings, she averaged 18.10, while scoring a strike rate of 96.96. But in the…
Fantasy Pick: If Jos Buttler’s back, he must be the captain (6:34) Ian Bishop and Sanjay Manjrekar help you pick the best XI for the game between Punjab and Rajasthan (6:34) 4:45 PM GMT Rohit Balaji Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab, Sharjah Pro TipPack your team with batsmen from both teams and expect yet another high scoring game at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium Our XI: Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson,…
Covid hasn’t stopped ‘commitment’ to women’s game – Harrison (1:54) ECB CEO Tom Harrison says the ECB is doing all it can to keep women’s cricket growing. (1:54) 4:08 PM GMT Tom Harrison has insisted the ECB’s commitment to the women’s game is “as strong as ever”, despite the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. Harrison, speaking on the day that England’s women played their first match on the BBC…
1:15 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff In the Knight Riders’ tournament opener, opener Sunil Narine was dismissed with a short ball. Sunrisers Hyderabad don’t have a genuine quick – they are full of swing bowlers, but it’s a prospect that should excite them. So does Narine still hold his place as a bowler? Most definitely, going by his bowling figures of 4-0-22-1 against Mumbai Indians. Also, who opens then if he…
12:50 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the eighth IPL 2020 match, between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Knight Riders lost their first game, and in their camp are the likes of Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, and others. On the other hand, are David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi,…
Kings XI Punjab might want to field Chris Gayle keeping in mind the short Sharjah boundaries 5:53 PM IST Shashank Kishore Big picture The Kings XI Punjab recovered superbly – a 97-run win against the Royal Challengers Bangalore – after their Super Over heartbreak against the Delhi Capitals. Now they move to Sharjah, the smallest of the three venues, to take on the Rajasthan Royals, who made 216 at that…
Renu Margrate runs up to congratulate bowler Neetu David after Rebecca Rolls was caught by Deepa Kulkarni 12:02 PM GMT Annesha Ghosh Neetu David, the former India left-arm spinner, has been appointed as the chairperson of the new women’s national selection panel, with former wicketkeeper-batter Kalpana Venkatachar (south), batter Aarti Vaidya (west), allrounder Mithu Mukherjee (east), and medium pacer Renu Margrate (north) the others in the team. More to follow……